http://www.bakeridi.edu.au/

The new merged institute known as Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, taking in the Baker Heart Research Institute and the International Diabetes Institute, has an unparalleled opportunity to confront the most serious diseases plaguing our community in a way that investigates risk factors from the earliest stages - pregnancy and maternal health - right through to chronic disease later in life.

By addressing our research into health and disease as a continuum, rather than a series of unrelated life events, we seek to help people avoid what has been seen in the past as an inevitable next stage in their progress through life. We can seek to reduce risk factors by understanding their relationship with early life and with lifestyle; we can try to arrest the development of risk factor to disease by early intervention; and we can attempt to prevent the onset of this chronic, currently untreatable disease by striving to better understand the interplay between conditions such as heart failure and early preventative steps.

Our research encompasses molecular and cellular biology, basic research; community education and disease prevention work and clinical services; research into life-saving and life-enhancing devices and other therapies; and training of the next generation of important scientists.

Baker IDI Research Themes
Baker IDI comprises five broad themes of research, each of which supports groups of scientists who work in the community as well as researchers who work in a laboratory setting. This bringing together of basic scientists with epidemiologists is central to Baker IDI’s plans as it will ensure that research is directly informed by community needs.
•    Population Studies and Health Profiling
•    Metabolism and Obesity
•    Diabetic Complications
•    Vascular and Hypertension
•    Cardiology and Therapeutics

Why choose Baker IDI for Post-graduate Studies?
Students are in a unique position to benefit from technological expansion at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Baker IDI has a strong student base with over 80 students. The current student body consists of work experience, summer projects, AMS, Masters, Honours and PhD students.

The Institute’s commitment to world class research is reflected in our ongoing program to acquire and utilise state-of-the-art technology in our research efforts. We run a sophisticated, multimillion-dollar proteomics analysis facility. This new technology allows analysis of the global patterning and expression profiles of proteins within a cell or tissue and provides a revolutionary approach to identify even the very low abundance proteins whose altered activity may contribute to the disease state.

For information on employment or study opportunities at Baker IDI phone: +61 3 8532 1111 or go to our website http://bakeridi.edu.au .